This past weekend, ESPN televised the USA Ultimate D-I College Championships, where the University of North Carolina was crowned the 2015 champion. While to many mainstream sports fans this fact slipped beneath a radar jammed...

Progress and change are often hailed as intrinsically positive, and if this is the case, then the men’s college basketball game seems to have just made a few steps forward. However, it is only through the lens of time that...

As would be expected for such a production, Boston College’s 2015 football game against Notre Dame at Fenway Park has been in the works for years. As part of Notre Dame’s Shamrock Series, which has the Irish playing...

Mark Ingram, fresh from Temple University to the University of Alabama at Birmingham as the school’s new athletic director, is understandably noncommittal regarding the return of UAB’s recently-cut football program....

One would think that the middle of the college football offseason just prior to the NFL draft would be a time for programs to focus on preparing for fall kickoffs and hosting spring games, not engaging in media repartee across...

My father used to tell me “there are many simple but wrong answers to life’s complex questions,” and the older I get the truer I find his statement. The questions of what is at the root and how to ameliorate the low...

To the common sports fan looking at the craze of March Madness and the insanity of Division I football, it would seem there is more than enough money floating around college athletics to ensure departments should have no problem...

Amidst the pandemonium of March Madness, a major break related to the treatment of USC in 2010 might prove troublesome for the NCAA. CBSSports.com obtained access to recently-unsealed emails regarding the NCAA investigation into...

If an athletic department employee went to his/her boss and pitched defunding a sport that has seen ten-fold growth in youth female participation, the high school participant population increase by more than 40,000 individuals,...

The NCAA’s long-running, ongoing investigation into UNC’s academic fraud continues to plod along, even as deals are made with primary figures and other investigations come to a close. The recent settlement with UNC...

After years away from military athletics administration while at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. James Knowlton is returning to his academy roots, becoming the new athletics director at the United States Air Force Academy....

Francis Giknis joins College AD as a contributor after seven years of teaching and coaching throughout the east coast. Prior to writing for College AD, Francis earned an English degree from the College of William and Mary and his masters at Columbia University. Raised in a cable television-free household, he remembers binge-watching ESPN while on vacations away from home, much to the chagrin of his parents.